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Hoosier Misfits and Perverts
HOOSIER MISFITS AND PERVERTS is a collection of nineteen short stories connected by a cast of characters comprised of immigrants and other outsiders reaching for the American Dream in America's Heartland, Indiana, during the last half of the 20th Century.
You'll meet Beamer when he's a child in Cold War Bloomington, striving to understand his father's alcoholism and obsession with Doomsday. You'll meet Joyce Crowley, a ten year old who frequently beats her father at chess and chases him down in a movie theater when her mother is in the hospital giving birth to her baby brother. You'll meet Samuel Duncan, an orphan raised by Jewish parents in Martinsville. When the Klan harasses Samuel's father, Samuel gives them a taste of their own medicine.
You'll walk through the decades toward the 21st century, meeting their offspring along the way, watching their struggle to overcome poverty and the demons that accompany it. These are the stories of all working class Americans, constantly feeling left on the outside, constantly giving the System all the help it needs to destroy themselves. Who will emerge in the 21st century unscathed?
You'll meet Beamer when he's a child in Cold War Bloomington, striving to understand his father's alcoholism and obsession with Doomsday. You'll meet Joyce Crowley, a ten year old who frequently beats her father at chess and chases him down in a movie theater when her mother is in the hospital giving birth to her baby brother. You'll meet Samuel Duncan, an orphan raised by Jewish parents in Martinsville. When the Klan harasses Samuel's father, Samuel gives them a taste of their own medicine.
You'll walk through the decades toward the 21st century, meeting their offspring along the way, watching their struggle to overcome poverty and the demons that accompany it. These are the stories of all working class Americans, constantly feeling left on the outside, constantly giving the System all the help it needs to destroy themselves. Who will emerge in the 21st century unscathed?
203 pages, Paperback
Published April 20, 2022
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Alec Cizak
75 books48 followersAlec Cizak was dropped off on the planet Earth by Lao Tzu after the old wizard made love to a seven-legged go-go dancer from the interior regions of Neptune. The dancer refused to care for the infant Cizak and so Lao Tzu brought the baby to Earth and left him with a cult of syphilitic monks on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Cizak was granted immortality by the goddess Molena, a stripper from Spain, on the condition that he never reveal her recipe for spaghetti and eyeball soup. Unable to contain this magnificent secret, Cizak whispered the recipe to a Belgium nun named Poinsettia. The goddess Molena cursed Cizak to mortality and a bit of talent as a writer no significant number of his fellow mortals would ever care too much about. He currently lives with his wife in a cave in Antarctica where he writes dime novels under a pen name that cannot be revealed here for national security purposes.
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December 30, 2022
An excellent read. Full review to follow shortly.
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